Every Peasant Revolt in Game of Thrones History

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  @QuinnTheGM · 2 years ago · pinned

  Update: we stand with communist King Aegon II

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• UG

  @ughhhSawyer · 2 years ago

  Edmure Tully found and read Aemond Marxgaryen’s Das Kapital drafts that were thought to be lost in the Riverlands. And that’s why he let the peasants shelter in his castle when “My people. They were afraid”. Stan my Aemondist trout king 🐟🐟

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• SP

  @spacecowboy5486 · 2 years ago

  The riot in CoK is both the most important and mysterious event in westerosi history because there we see for the last time (yet) the true stallion who mounts the world: Tyrek Lannister, who was last seen ahorse

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• KA

  @kallemort · 2 years ago

  Radical revolutionary Anarchist-Aemondism with Riverlander characteristics is what Westeros needs.

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• TA

  @tarvoc746 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Crusader Kings 2: You just crushed this peasant revolt? Here, have another peasant revolt.<br>A Song of Ice and Fire: How long has it been, two generations? Three? Okay, I guess they always pop up during autumn...

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• TY

  @tyke2026 · 2 years ago

  Shoutout to Supreme Leader Egg, a true comrade

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• BI

  @billnye7414 · 2 years ago

  Knowing how feudal societies felt about peasant revolts there is a decent chance that there are many more peasant revolts in less significant locations that weren’t recorded for the history books

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• AE

  @aegorbittersteel2154 · 2 years ago (edited)

  The High Sparrow and The Shepard starting revolutions.

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• CU

  @CulinVlau · 2 years ago

  I think there may have been more local peasant uprisings than we think, typically put down by the the local lords. Examples:<br>At the beginning of Aenys&apos;s reign there was the Vulture King who clearly led an army of mostly peasants based on their description. And in the Iron Islands claiming to be Lodos returned, Lodos the Twice-Drowned led a rebellion which was put down by Goren Greyjoy.<br>We don&apos;t know of any peasant uprisings during the Dunk stories, but conditions were ripe during the reign of Aerys I between the plague that had ravaged the land and the great drought that followed.

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• VE

  @Vesporeon · 2 years ago

  Aemondism-Aegonism is noble but Westeros needs to advance to Braavosi-Qartheen style oligarchic mercantilism before the peasants can be liberated

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• JI

  @JimRFF · 2 years ago

  I think it says something interesting about GRRM&apos;s worldview, or at least the world-building he&apos;s created for Westeros, that in basically all of the &quot;peasant revolts,&quot; they are largely either explicitly religious movements or led by people using religious trappings / imagery to get people to follow them, the only exception is the bread riot in ACoK (unless you count King Bread as a religious leader, which I personally do)... there are political revolts led by disgruntled nobles trying to replace the monarch in charge of the system, and there are religious revolts from angry peasants, but there are no &quot;economic&quot; revolts from a burgher class or breakaway towns disobeying their lords for profitability reasons... which is interesting because those &quot;proto-middle-class&quot; revolutions were the ones that actually did more to bring about the end of the feudal age and the beginning of the early modern period in our actual history

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• WA

  @warlordofbritannia · 2 years ago (edited)

  There is a specter haunting Westeros, the specter of Ahorse. All the powers of the Seven Kingdoms have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: High Septon and King, Arryn and Martel, Southron knights and Northern clansmen.

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